Paolo Bacigalupi won the 2010 Hugo for his 2009 debut novel, The Windup Girl, but he is best known for his short fiction (some of which has been adapted for the Love, Death, and Robots series) and for his young adult novels. There is plenty of moderately explicit violence.
This is a true YA novel so there isn't any four letter words beyond "damn" and no explicit sex. This sets a theme that won't really be explored until sequel. There is an interesting sub-plot about the enslaved half-men clone mutants and their discrimination in society. The poor boy is shipbreaker Nailer and rich swank Nita on the run from kidnappers sent by her father's rival in the Patel shipping monopoly.Ĭertainly the most interesting part is the first half. After an auspicious beginning and a fascinating look at a totally different world of a future and the lifestyle of a particular group of the impoverished shipbreakers and beach dwellers (this is after the depletion of fossil fuels and a catastrophic increase in global warming), the book devolves into the usual poor boy-saves-rich girl adventure plot. Shipbreaker ends up as being something of a heart breaker.
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